Hi,
Heikki Linnakangas írta:
> Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>
>> am I right that an XID is global across the whole DB cluster
>> under the same $PGDATA?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>> I am asking this because I need to check
>> TransactionIdDidCommit(XLogRecord->xl_xid)
>> from the walreciver. Can I expect it to work on any
>> xl_xid that walreceiver encounters?
>>
>
> Walreceiver is only responsible for receiving the WAL from the master
> server, and write to disk. It doesn't apply the log, it doesn't look
> into the contents at all. So TransactionIdDidCommit(XLogRecord->xl_xid)
> always returns false on WAL it has received, because it hasn't been
> applied yet.
>
I guessed so, I intended to collect the xl_xid values in a cache array
and check periodically.
> What are you trying to do?
>
Synchronous replication. :-)
Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi
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